With the old core gone and Jayson Tatum being out for most of the next season, the Celtics are looking for new solutions. The headache for Joe Mazulla and Brad Stevens is to build a roster that can contend for the championship with Jaylen Brown and Derrick White as main players. So, the Summer League becomes the right place for the rest of the players to showcase their worth. For Jordan Walsh, it was working out well until a moment that was a proper head loss from him.
Walsh was ejected with 3:34 left in the second quarter of the Celtics’ game against the Heat on Monday after a hard foul on the Heat’s Pelle Larsson. That too in front of the GM Brad Stevens. The altercation started when Walsh fouled and then shoved Larsson, which resulted in Heat star falling into the first row full of Celtics executives. Larsson wasn’t going to leave and confronted Walsh as tensions rose. Walsh then gave the Heat wing another push right in front of the officials. Back-to-back pushes, and eventually that led to Walsh’s ejection as he picked up his second technical foul of the game.
Before his ejection, he led all scorers with 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field in his 10 minutes of action–His best game to date during Summer League. But that’s not what most are going to remember.
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